While a bunch of people in Los Angeles are 'just having fun watching cars burn,' there are other places in America where the immigration debate is raging. Just, you know, without as many cinder blocks being thrown at federal agents.

In what might be the most ironic and least self-aware article we have seen from them in quite some time, The Washington Post wants America to know that the residents of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are extremely worried that deportations of illegal immigrants might impact the 'backbone' of the elitists' workforce.

Hey, we can't blame them. Have you seen the size of the Obama estate's lawn? It probably takes a whole team of illegals an entire week to mow that bad boy.

The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) ~ Life on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket has been disrupted after migrant workers were shackled and boarded onto Coast Guard boats, igniting fear among undocumented workers who form the backbone of the islands' workforce.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/08/ice-raid-marthas-vineyard-trump-arrests/?utm_campaign=wp_main&;utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

A million-dollar home excavation project has been delayed because workers were too afraid to show up at the construction site. A pool at a vacation inn was closed to guests after the maintenance crew didn’t arrive. And entire businesses on this New England island have shut down.

Life on Martha’s Vineyard and the adjacent island of Nantucket has been disrupted since officers arrested dozens of immigrants late last month, igniting fear among undocumented workers who form the backbone of the workforce here just as the busy summer season gets underway.

The arrests hit a nerve in a liberal enclave known for welcoming everyone: presidents — former president Barack Obama has an oceanfront property here — LGBTQ+ activists, racial minorities, celebrities and a large cluster of immigrants from Brazil. People checked in on friends and warned them to stay off the roads. Residents staged a protest at the ferry docks where agents were loading up shackled migrants onto boats. One man followed the officers with a camera and heckled them.

LOL. He heckled them? Such courage. That'll show 'em!

But that's a very interesting line in the Post's article above. The liberal enclave is known for 'welcoming everyone,' is it?

That's funny. Because we can remember a time not too long ago when Martha's Vineyard wouldn't even let illegals stay there for a whole weekend.

Kristi L. Talmadge (@KristiTalmadge) ~ Apparently, Martha's Vinyard only has room for their personal illegal immigrant cheap slave laborers.

They told the nation they couldn't handle 50 migrants, but cried when ICE took away 40 of their personal slave laborer migrants.

Among them were an MS-13 gang member and a child sex offender.

Lack of room in their really big houses.

Remember THIS?

"At some point in time, they have to move them to somewhere else."

We don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants or the housing."

"We certainly don't have housing. We are in a housing crisis, as we are."

These rich elitist Democrats never changed.
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1931929766845693998

Hey, the lady in that video looks familiar. We definitely recall when she and her fellow residents were so very, very 'welcoming' to 'undocumented citizens' a couple of years back.

Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Remember when 50 illegals were sent to Martha’s Vineyard and they called in the National Guard to remove them inside of 48 hours.

NO! The National Guard, you say? How many Waymo cars did the illegals in Martha's Vineyard set on fire when Ron DeSantis sent them there?

Oh, that's right. Zero.

But, the people couldn't wait to yeet the immigrants off the island anyway.

Musings of a nobody (@JustaCi54400863) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Our expectations of you are already low, BUT holy 💩 ... does anyone employed by you actually do research?

Research? What's that?

Eddie Ki Yay! (@TarHeeled67) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Odd. The Martha's Vineyard folks didn't seem too welcoming to migrants a few years back:

http://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123521033/marthas-vineyard-migrants-sent-to-cape-cod

But that was (D)ifferent ... or something.

Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) ~ Beyond parody.

You couldn't even make it up.

Aside from the hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness, though, many couldn't help but notice that the real problem on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket was that mean old President Trump was taking away the rich folks' slave labor.

Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Who will squeeze the lemons into their Voss now?

They can't do it themselves. They just got mani-pedis, for crying out loud.

Pam D (@soirchick) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Is this supposed to make us feel bad? The wealthy don't have their cheap labor, now, and you want us to cry?

jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Thoughts and prayers to all the rich white people who are now forced to do their own chores.

We'll light a candle for them.

Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Pray for the rich liberals who will now have to pay an American to raise their kids and cut their lawn.

And we all know how much they hate Americans.

FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost}

The Galaxy's Shortest Wookie (@Crapplefratz) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} My goodness! Who will maintain their manicured lawns? Who will clean the toilets and make the beds at their quaint B&Bs and boutique hotels if all the illegal immigrants are gone!?

Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} People often ask why the Biden administration opened the border. The answer is simple: the Democrats are the party of the rich and rich people like indentured servants.

Señia (@SeniaVJ) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} The meme in real life ...

The more things change, the more ... well, you know the rest.

Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Illegal immigrants “form the backbone� of Martha’s Vineyard’s workforce.

And in a final touch of 'Oopsies,' are the residents of the Massachusetts islands admitting to a crime by referring to illegals as the 'backbone' of their workforce?

Tanya Berlaga (@TBerlaga) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} Why wouldn't residents of Martha's Vineyard hire DOCUMENTED workers? Have you done any research into that?

alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) ~ {Replying to @washingtonpost} 8 USC 1324a(f) - initially enacted June, 1952, last amended October, 2004.

Ruh-roh.

If you can't read the screenshots above, according to the Department of Justice and existing statute, the poor rich folks might be in for some stiff penalties:

Subsection 1324a(f) provides that any person or entity that engages in a "pattern or practice" of violations of subsection (a)(1)(A) or (a)(2) shall be fined not more than $3000 for each unauthorized alien with respect to whom such a violation occurs, imprisoned for not more than six months for the entire pattern or practice, or both.

D'oh!

We hope James Taylor, Ted Danson, and Mary Steenburgen have some deep pockets and like the color orange.

Regardless of any consequences for the residents of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, we have to hand it to The Washington Post. They managed to hit the dead legacy media trifecta.

They completely contradicted their narrative from just a few years ago, they accidentally confirmed the truth that leftists love slave labor, and they may have inadvertently implicated everyone in federal crimes.

Not bad for a day's work in the legacy media.

Beyond Parody: WaPo Is Suddenly VERY CONCERNED About Illegals Being Forced Off of Martha's Vineyard
http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/06/10/beyond-parody-wapo-is-suddenly-very-concerned-about-illegals-being-forced-off-of-marthas-vineyard-n2414035

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence